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1 Production control Series, GS-1152 TS-114 May 1992 POSITION CLASSIFICATION STANDARD for Production control Series, GS-1152 Table of Contents SERIES OCCUPATIONAL EVALUATING GRADE CONVERSION FACTOR LEVEL FACTOR 1, KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED BY THE FACTOR 2, SUPERVISORY FACTOR 3, FACTOR 4, FACTOR 5, SCOPE AND FACTOR 6, PERSONAL CONTACTS AND FACTOR 7, purpose OF FACTOR 8, PHYSICAL FACTOR 9, WORK Office of Personnel Management 1 Production control Series, GS-1152 TS-114 May 1992 SERIES DEFINITION This series includes positions involved in the supervision or performance of planning, estimating, scheduling, and expediting the use of labor, machines, and materials in specific manufacturing or remanufacturing operations that employ mechanical or automated production systems and methods in the fabrication, rebuilding, overhaul, refurbishing, or repair of any type of Government-owned, controlled, or operated equipment, systems, facilities, and supplies.

2 Some positions are involved in the preparation of contract bids that include the preproduction analysis of specific proposed work packages to determine workload capacity, labor, material, services, and machine requirements, etc., to arrive at the most competitive bid. These positions are also covered by this series as they perform the same type of work as positions that are responsible for the preproduction planning for any assigned projects, since the source data used and knowledge applied are the same. Positions that include only some of the duties and responsibilities of the Production control Series should not be classified mechanically in this series. In order to include a POSITION in this series, the production control work being performed must reflect the occupational definition as a whole and not just selected or fragmented portions of the duties and responsibilities of the occupation.

3 That is, between the trainee and journey levels, developmental positions must be involved, in varying degrees, with all aspects of the production control program. EXCLUSIONS 1. Classify positions responsible for the development, analysis, and evaluation of management information systems reports, charts, and graphs from production data that do not have any significant duties or responsibilities for planning all aspects of an integrated system of production control in the Management and Program Analysis Series, GS-0343. 2. Classify positions responsible for planning, coordinating, or evaluating logistical action required to support missions, weapon systems, or other programs, where the paramount requirement is the ability to integrate the separate functions in planning or implementing a logistics management program in the Logistics Management Series, GS-0346. This includes positions that provide logistical program support to the production effort but are not directly responsible for controlling the production process itself.

4 3. Classify positions responsible for the analysis and improvement of manufacturing processes, methods, procedures, layouts, equipment, and standards that primarily require technical engineering knowledge in the Engineering Technician Series, GS-0802. 4. Classify positions responsible for planning, designing, analyzing, improving, and installing integrated work systems in order to produce products, render services, repair equipment, etc., that require knowledge of the principles and techniques of industrial engineering and pertinent industrial work processes, facilities, methods, and equipment in the Industrial Engineering Technician Series, GS-0895. Office of Personnel Management 2 Production control Series, GS-1152 TS-114 May 1992 5. Classify positions responsible for planning, evaluating, and maintaining technical surveillance over Government production operations, either in contractor or Government-operated facilities in the Industrial Specialist Series, GS-1150.

5 Positions that have significant production control responsibilities for contractor operations for analyzing, planning, and scheduling specific production operations or workload are included in the GS-1152 series. 6. Classify positions that primarily require a professional knowledge of printing processes and equipment to plan, administer, supervise, review, evaluate, or perform work in connection with the management of a printing program in the Printing Services Series, GS-1654. 7. Classify positions responsible for identifying parts, assemblies, and equipment; determining sources of supply and feasibility of local manufacture; determining availability, inter-changeability, and substitution; preparing specifications for procurement and expediting material deliveries; locating alternate sources; or functioning as an equipment technical information resource and providing guidance for the activation or deactivation of equipment in a system in the Equipment Services Series, GS-1670.

6 DEFINITIONS Agency: As used in this STANDARD , means Army, Air Force, Navy, DLA, NASA, etc. "Complex" Product or Project: A complex product or production project is one that requires complex manufacturing or overhaul processes or techniques when: 1. it has component parts, subassemblies, or major assemblies, or undergoes many manufacturing processes and has a great number of characteristics to be controlled or checked; 2. it has envelope or performance-type specifications, a complex design, or a new design subject to engineering changes and modifications concurrent with production; 3. inspection of the item requires complicated setups, involving interrelated dimensions and concentricity requirements, and extremely close tolerances; or 4. inspection of the item requires the use of specially designed intricate calibration and measurement equipment, a practical knowledge of advanced industrial material treatment processes, or intricate or specially designed preservation and packaging techniques.

7 Some examples of complex items are aircraft, aircraft engines, fire control systems, sophisticated navigation systems, guided missiles, or any items characterized by many Office of Personnel Management 3 Production control Series, GS-1152 TS-114 May 1992 individual components and subassemblies involving a variety of manufacturing or control operations or processes. "Less Complex" Product or Project: A less complex product or project is defined as a type: 1. that has definite specifications and a range of manufacturing processes or commodity characteristics, but relatively few interrelated parts or combinations of factors to be considered; 2. that can be inspected by using a variety of STANDARD precision measuring devices or a somewhat restricted number of sensory determinations; or 3. that is covered by standardized, or less complicated contract clauses; or that requires the use of STANDARD industrial material treatment processes or STANDARD preservation and packaging techniques.

8 A few examples of less complex products or projects are field or ship gun-type ammunition; some aircraft wheel assemblies; aircraft control surfaces; pumps (feed water/hydraulic/oil); or any items characterized by a limited number of components or subassemblies that require a few different but standardized operations or processes. Specialized Machines (production): Machines that have been designed for a specific purpose and cannot be used for other purposes without major modification. For example, ammunition depots use a variety of such equipment such as cartridge/shell extractors, and cavity drillers (explosive). STANDARD or General purpose Machines (production): Machines that have not been designed for one particular process or operation, but can be utilized, sometimes with only minor modifications, in a number of different operations. Shipyards and aircraft overhaul and repair activities typically utilize large numbers of general purpose machines.

9 Some examples are drill presses, lathes, turret lathes, milling machines, boring mills, shapers, slotting machines, metal breaks, shears, and balancing machines. Worker-hours or Worker-days or Worker-years: These terms represent a specific unit of measure for determining the amount of labor required or expended. For example, 560 worker-hours may represent one worker required to do 8 hours of labor every day for 70 days or; it could also represent a different requirement for a variety of trades in two groups of 35 workers each working in two 8-hour shifts for just 1 day (totaling the same 560 hours) to complete the same or different work, but in a shorter period of time. Office of Personnel Management 4 Production control Series, GS-1152 TS-114 May 1992 OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION For the purpose of this STANDARD , the word "product" or "project" is used to identify an item that has been either manufactured, constructed, overhauled, or repaired.

10 When it is completed, it represents an asset that is typically identified with the mission and purpose of the industrial activity. The product or project can be any one of a wide variety of items, of any size, cost, or degree of complexity, ranging from small arms ammunition to a large nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Production control is the planning of production in advance of actual operations; establishing the exact route of each individual item, part, or assembly; setting the start and completion dates for each important item and assembly, as well as the finished product; determining the specific type of labor and number of hours required for each phase of the operation; and calculating all the materials, services, and the production schedule lead time required. Many positions that are concerned with current or immediate production are responsible for the preparation and release of necessary work packages and job orders, as well as initiating any appropriate follow up action.